Ethel Lilian Voynich Quotes

#1. I am rather observant, and have a habit of putting things together. I tell you that so that you may be careful when you don't want me to know a thing.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#2. I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.
No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#3. The longer a thing is to take doing, the more reason to begin at once

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#4. If you have found the way of sacrifice, the way that leads to peace; if you have joined with loving comrades to bring deliverance to them that weep and mourn in secret; then see to it that your soul be free from envy and passion and your heart as an altar where the sacred fire burns eternally.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#5. The training of children is such a serous thing, and it means so much to them to be surrounded from the very beginning with good influences, that I should have thought the holier a man's vocation and the purer his life, the more fit he is to be a father

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#6. I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything.

Stevie Nicks

#7. If you are going to say a thing the substance of which is a big pill for your readers to swallow, there is no use in frightening them at the beginning by the form.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#8. It matters just as much what to do, whether people hate you or love you

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#9. Obesity is now a problem in the navy. They've created a new rank: Really Big Rear Admiral.

David Letterman

#10. I dare say you will think it an absurd prejudice; but a human body, to me, is a sacred thing; I don't like to see it treated irreverently and made hideous.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#11. Life can change in the blink of an eye. All you have is right now. So don't ever put off telling someone how you feel about them, don't assume that they know, because they might not and it might be too late.

Alexandra Potter

#12. I quite agree with you that it is detestably malicious. But the worst thing about it is that it's all true.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#13. Remember what your own Shelley says: 'The past is Death's, the future is thine own.' Take it, while it is still yours, and fix your mind, not on what you may have done long ago to hurt, but on what you can do now to help.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#14. He says things which need saying and which none of us have had the courage to say. This passage, where he compares Italy to a tipsy man weeping with tenderness on the neck of the thief who is picking his pocket, is splendidly written.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#15. I have only one offering to give, a broken heart.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#16. Overwork has long been cast as a choice, and a positive one borne out of love at that. But the truth is that for so many, there is no choice.

Miya Tokumitsu

#17. There is no case which calls for injustice; and to condemn a civilian by the judgment of a secret military tribunal is both unjust and illegal.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#18. Most of us are degraded in one way or another.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#19. Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

Camille Paglia

#20. The bad principle is that any man should hold over another the power to bind and loose. It's a false relationship to stand in towards one's fellows

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#21. Would you have me wait till my grave opens of itself to swallow me up?

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#22. In this month he had been too happy to sin much

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#23. Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.

Euripides

#24. They kill me because they are afraid of me; and what more can any man's heart desire?

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#25. I don't know what he means, but there's something not clean about a man who sneers at everything.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#26. The disease itself is what is called a religious attitude of mind.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#27. As a literary composition, it is utterly worthless, and could be admired only by persons who know nothing about literature. As for its giving offence, that is the very thing I intended it to do.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#28. A stone in the path may have the best intentions, but it must be kicked out of the path, for all that.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#29. The hand of the Lord is heavy.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#30. We are all fit for better things than we ever do

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#31. Do you think you didn't hurt the man you killed?

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#32. We always understood each other without many words, even when we were little things.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#33. Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating.

Goodman Ace

#34. For a selfie, it's not about the pose, it's about you. There's a reason why you look great in the picture or you look great in real life, because someone has caught the essence of who you are, and a pose is not you.

Nigel Barker